I like OU over TCU and lean Stanford over Wash. With Gurley probably hurt, I'd probably sit out the GA game. Thanks for the injury updates! Is there a good place that consolidates injury information? It can be a pain to try to find more than just a one or two word blurb for that kind of info on a large number of plays.

Just 10 days, but he asked me to let everyone know he wasn't hiding. Don't know if he will come back or not, but I've at least asked him to stay active in our thread here. He said he will. From what he understands, it was for telling someone that the game was on telemundo, then saying he was being an ass. Who knows, but it is what it is.

Crap! That's akin to our thread losing Brandon Allen for a couple of weeks. We have some quality players here, but there's still a bit of a drop-off to our back-up guru's. Hurry back Jeff! You will be missed.

Just 10 days, but he asked me to let everyone know he wasn't hiding. Don't know if he will come back or not, but I've at least asked him to stay active in our thread here. He said he will. From what he understands, it was for telling someone that the game was on telemundo, then saying he was being an ass. Who knows, but it is what it is.

That's exactly what it was and it's crap. Basically he labeled himself an a**. Much worse goes unnoticed.

Hopefully, this cordial and profitable thread will survive for years. In the interest of emergency preparedness, if things go horribly wrong and it disappears, you might come look for a few of us in the Arkansas section of the SEC Rant over on TD. Widespread and I are both there occasionally, and thanks to their ATS pick'em contest, there are some folks with pretty good records ATS to be found there as well. As McKdaddy suggests, to reduce the risk of bad things happening, let's keep this non-confrontational, on-topic, and going strong.

Second favorite sport has begun. Base most of my picks off a back-to-back system I've been gathering stats on covering the last two years. Follow some trends on there. 1* = 1 unit, 2* = 2 units, etc. I will tell you whether it's a B2B spreadsheet play or just a normal play.

Last year Leafs were 4-5 in B2B situations (not too bad). However, when those games were on the road they were 2-4. Also, teams that won the first road game of b2b road games went on to lose the second road game 65% of the time. Side note, out of the Leafs 5 losses last year in B2B games, 4 of them came by 2 goals or more (hence why i'm taking a shot at the Flyers -1.5).

In regards to totals, 6 of the 9 Leafs B2B games last year went O5.5 goals.

Iowa State hit in one or two small trends with decent winning percentages, but not enough data to warrant much confidence. Also, the power systems have been bad at picking Iowa State games and below average at picking TX games. I'd say slight lean Iowa State, but I'm sitting that one out.

Similar to above, Utah hit in one or two small trends with decent winning percentages, but not enough data to warrant much confidence. The power systems have been well below average in picking Utah games, a little above average in picking UCLA games. The systems with the best records for both are fairly evenly split. I'd say slight lean Utah, but I'm sitting that one out too.

Thanks. I'm liking that many of my favorite lines got hammered after I made the plays. I still want 1 or 2 more weeks of data to get good and comfortable and to see if my selection methods can deliver consistent results. I'm also looking forward to getting Jeff back on here so I can tail his dime plays.

What makes you like Texas? I read up on that game for about an hour this morning and couldn't find a play anywhere, not even on the total.

It's gonna be a boring game. Neither team will throw the football well. Texas has shown improvement in run defense while Iowa state just isn't very good. I expect texas to force turnovers and win the turnover battle. They are 92-6 under brown when they win the turnover battle.

Basically I expect texas to be more effective on the ground behind gray which will open up big plays in the passing game.

The browns suck. The Vikings should easily cover 6 at home, I play it that way and Hoyer comes outta nowhere and lights up the scoreboard. So the browns are hot with Hoyer and they should easily cover 3 at home against the hapless bills. Right?

No, Hoyer goes down and it's back to typical browns football. Just stupid.

Why is texas so hell bent on throwing the ball all over the field? Seriously?

This is why bettors lose games they have no business losing? There is at most 7 in the box. I just don't understand this. You can't keep putting your backup QB in 3rd and long situations. This is just silly.

I'm LRHogFan there ... same hog pic as avatar. Currently at 67% in the Rant SEC ATS contest, which is much better than I was doing at about this time last year. I'm hoping to close strong again this year as the spreadsheet adds data. Would love to break 70% this year.

I'm LRHogFan there ... same hog pic as avatar. Currently at 67% in the Rant SEC ATS contest, which is much better than I was doing at about this time last year. I'm hoping to close strong again this year as the spreadsheet adds data. Would love to break 70% this year.